[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: about the pkg-zope repositories

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, martin f krafft wrote:

> I run unstable on production servers.
Brave.

> Makes for quick bug fix turnaround times. :)
I guess *you* are knowing what you do.  I hope you did not suggested this
in your book ...

>> (that's why the name).  Experimental is for things that are *very likely to
>> break everything*.
>
> I disagree. It's a scratch area. unstable is a distribution on its
> own. You should always try to keep things in unstable installable.
                          ^^^
"Try" means fix problems quickly if something is broken.

> If things are broken in experimental, that's okay. If they stay
                                                              ^^^^
> broken in unstable, that's not.
They should definitely not *stay* broken, but if thing *might* break for
a short time, I would call this "unstable".

> also sprach Federico Sevilla III <jijo at free.net.ph> [2005.08.16.1130 +0200]:
>> This would be great. Something like volatile.debian.net, but only for
>> Zope and Zope-related packages (eg: Zope products).
> I want pkg-zope to have its own APT repository in the long run.
Are you sure we will have the man power to gain this goal.  In the past
zope was not very well maintained.  Now it becomes better, but if you,
Fabio and Doko might be occupied by other tasks we might be left with a
pile of work which nobody will do in the long run.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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